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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0823327206920 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Turtle Press Languages: Manufacturer: Turtle Press MPN: DZEN1D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turtle Press Release Date: March 06, 2007 Running Time: 65 minutes Studio: Turtle Press Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not pretending to be an art movie...and it is not. Clean shots of what is going on in a Zen monastery. It tends to be repetitive which I guess is alright as a parallel to the monastic life of these nuns. It feels like a home made movie shot without much detail. Indoor shots are at very bright artificial light. Feels like the people shooting it were in a hurry to get it done and get out of there. But then, this is just my opinion... Rating:  - better than "into great silence"Into Great Silence at least made the art house circuit. This is a better look at monastic life as a religious phenomenon. Rating: - an hour of peaceA beautiful hour-long video documentary of a 90 day retreat for Zen (Cham Sun) Buddhist nuns at 10th century Baek Hung Temple in South Korea. Throughout long meditation periods, the Zen master's discreet encouragements, manual labor, cooking, eating, and more long meditation periods, the camera NEVER intrudes, creating in the viewer a natural sense of being present at retreat. The silence of the film is positively life-giving. The pungent natural winter landscapes outside the monastery remind me ... Read More Rating: - Educational, inspiringThis is a wonderful DVD for Zen practitioners and anyone wondering what a retreat is like at its most disciplined. Filmed at a centuries-old temple in the chill-to-the-marrow winter months in the mountains of Korea, viewers get to see 24 Buddhist monks practice this discipline for 90 days. That's 90 days in a row! Watching what these people went through makes the pain you experience in your legs after 25 minutes suddenly seem quite insignificant. Highly recommended. Read More |
